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Atanus Won!

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Hey, boys and girls, Susan Atanus won the primary, she's going to be your new representative! Given the deliberate voter disenfranchisement, the deliberate shortening of poll times, and the manipulation by the corporate masters to make sure their employees can not afford to vote, she's a shoe-in.

This is what America is coming to, and this is the face of the new reality.

No, I am not happy.
 
Looks like the Westboro baptist church got their candidate to the election.

I don't think the Chicago political machine is gonna let her win the election.
 
jj said:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...ess-_n_4993555.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Hey, boys and girls, Susan Atanus won the primary, she's going to be your new representative! Given the deliberate voter disenfranchisement, the deliberate shortening of poll times, and the manipulation by the corporate masters to make sure their employees can not afford to vote, she's a shoe-in.

This is what America is coming to, and this is the face of the new reality.

No, I am not happy.
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Other than the fact that she won the primary, everything you just said in your post is false. Cripes jj, she is in Illinois, the home of the Democratic Machine. She will get absolutely slaughtered by Jan Shakowski.

C'mon man....

The fact is that virtually no democratic candidates had primary opponents, so lots of democrats crossed party lines to vote for this nut job, as well as to attempt to defeat Bruce Rauner.
 
16.5 said:
Cripes jj, she is in Illinois, the home of the Democratic Machine. She will get absolutely slaughtered by Jan Shakowski.
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Except that they probably won't get to vote thanks to the nationwide voter disenfranchisement.
 
jj said:
Except that they probably won't get to vote thanks to the nationwide voter disenfranchisement.
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That argument is laughably absurd.

Illinois has democrats in charge of both houses of the general assembly and the governor.
 
16.5 said:
That argument is laughably absurd.

Illinois has democrats in charge of both houses of the general assembly and the governor.
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So how come marijuana isn't legal there? I smell a rat.
 
I like how the conservatives decide not to defend this nutjob, instead they decide to attack the democrats of Illinois.
 
thaiboxerken said:
I like how the conservatives decide not to defend this nutjob, instead they decide to attack the democrats of Illinois.
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Of course, it's all about anti-conservativism, really, it's about how much of the other guy's stuff you can ruin. That's what we see passing as a "conservative" these days.

Racism, end of civil rights, starvation, hatred ...
 
jj said:
Susan Atanus won the primary, she's going to be your new representative! Given the deliberate voter disenfranchisement, the deliberate shortening of poll times, and the manipulation by the corporate masters to make sure their employees can not afford to vote, she's a shoe-in.
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jj said:
Except that they probably won't get to vote thanks to the nationwide voter disenfranchisement.
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16.5 said:
That argument is laughably absurd.

Illinois has democrats in charge of both houses of the general assembly and the governor.
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I have to agree with 16.5 here. One of you will be proved right and the other proved wrong in November. If Atanus wins, then jj is correct, and if Schakowsky wins then 16.5 is correct.

For reference, in 2012 Schakowsky won with 66.3% of the vote. Now maybe those devious Republicans will find a way to disenfranchise those voters next time and prove jj right. We shall see. :)
 
I think it's a safe Democratic seat. Re-districting had almost no impact on the last election. The Disenfranchise 'Em movement isn't going to have any effect on suburban Chicago, especially those particular suburbs. Guess what minority is real big in places like Skokie. Does the name ring a bell?

Since the right, no doubt, views the incumbent as one of the commie-est socialists on the planet, I'd like to see the big money Paleos in there to sell their message. Go in there with guns blazing. Send in Ted Cruz and Bachmann and Sarah and bring the Message of Gawd. This is their demographic. White people (they do count Jewish as "white", right?).

So let's get the fundies in action. This is a symbolic battle for the heart of America. And it'll scare the crap out of the Republican mainstream when they see where Cruz Vuz,... er Cruz Views... will take them when they get outside their little echo chambers.

I predict that Atanus will do markedly better than her write-in campaign in 2012. (She got six votes. I think she'll get more than double that.)
 
SezMe said:
Evidence?
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Odd. One would think that one would also ask jj for his evidence that voters on the North Shore of Chicago are being disenfranchised.:rolleyes:

But it is cool. I actually live in that precinct. And I talked to people on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday who had pulled Republican ballots to vote for this nutjob and Dillard.

Foolmewunz said:
I think it's a safe Democratic seat. Re-districting had almost no impact on the last election. The Disenfranchise 'Em movement isn't going to have any effect on suburban Chicago, especially those particular suburbs. Guess what minority is real big in places like Skokie. Does the name ring a bell?

Since the right, no doubt, views the incumbent as one of the commie-est socialists on the planet, I'd like to see the big money Paleos in there to sell their message. Go in there with guns blazing. Send in Ted Cruz and Bachmann and Sarah and bring the Message of Gawd. This is their demographic. White people (they do count Jewish as "white", right?).

So let's get the fundies in action. This is a symbolic battle for the heart of America. And it'll scare the crap out of the Republican mainstream when they see where Cruz Vuz,... er Cruz Views... will take them when they get outside their little echo chambers.

I predict that Atanus will do markedly better than her write-in campaign in 2012. (She got six votes. I think she'll get more than double that.)
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Re-districting had a HUGE impact, as the Madigan crowd gerrymandered the living hell out of the State to benefit the Democrats.
 
16.5 said:
Re-districting had a HUGE impact, as the Madigan crowd gerrymandered the living hell out of the State to benefit the Democrats.
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Not in the Illinois 9th Congressional, it didn't. The Dems could run a cocker spaniel in that district and still win 58/42. This time? It's be more like 70/30.

Atanus may put the "fun" back in fundie for us fans of bizarre elections compliments of the tea party extremists, but JJ's only hope for a fun battle is if the TP follows my suggestion and brings out the big guns. They'd still lose, but it would just serve to call more attention to the fact that they are a fringe party of ideologues and they're willing to drag the entire GOP with them down their road to oblivion.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Not in the Illinois 9th Congressional, it didn't. The Dems could run a cocker spaniel in that district and still win 58/42. This time? It's be more like 70/30.
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I was curious what it looked like so I headed over to the wiki. It doesn't look terribly gerrymandered, but it's got that weird southern border so maybe they gerrymandered it to rule out GOP voters down there. Immediately south is the 5th district which is even more democrat leaning.
 
A huge number of Democrats voted in the GOP primary this year, in fact there were nearly twice as many GOP ballots cast as Dem in this very blue state. The reason was the public labor unions were trying to get union-friendly Dillard the GOP nomination for governor, and they made it a much closer race than it otherwise would have been. I think a lot of Dems voted for this woman just to give Shakowsky an easy win in November.
 
WildCat said:
A huge number of Democrats voted in the GOP primary this year, in fact there were nearly twice as many GOP ballots cast as Dem in this very blue state. The reason was the public labor unions were trying to get union-friendly Dillard the GOP nomination for governor, and they made it a much closer race than it otherwise would have been. I think a lot of Dems voted for this woman just to give Shakowsky an easy win in November.
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Is there any proof of Dems doing that?
 
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